This topic has been done to death via the ask page, and the many other blog articles, meta.stackoverflow.com questions, and other similar meta posts on other sites. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to cover the issue again, but keep in mind that the people that need the the information in the post the most probably won't really read it before posting.
So the critical things I think need to be covered are venue, and writing style.
I suspect your blog might focus on asking on superuser, but as a general rule it is very important to make sure you ask the question in the right place. Not spending the time to compose a question in the right place waste everybody's time. Check the FAQ/About page first, look at the tags, look at the tone of the questions.
Compose your questions with the inverted pyramid style. That is start with the most simple statement of your problem, and then expand with further details. I get very frustrated by questions that SPAM me with lots of detail, but then forget to actually ask a clear question. In a question, the title, first sentence/paragraph, and final sentence/paragraph should each be a clear statement/summary of the problem.
A inverted pyramid style question would look like this.
A inverted pyramid style question would look like this.
When I do foo I get ping, but I expect pong
I am trying to do foo on a system from vender acme, running and foo is verion n.nn
When I run foo in debug mode with widget X it shows error message blah
When I look at log file foo.log it shows an error
foo is corrupt.What should I do to get foo to return pong?
